Looks like the Knights Templar ripped off Morrowind. The architecture is nearly identical. Sad!
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Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
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#12I thought there was only one Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. How did they get past the rabbit?
Look at the bones!
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#14An interesting observation from the photos is that you can see evidence of light vandalization (mostly "names" carved into the rock). This implies these caves are part of some hyper local knowledge (at least as a party room for teenagers). - I wonder what the oldest vandalization is? - Could it be that there are many others in the area, which is why this hasn't been formally discovered before? How many times has it b…
> In 2012, it was reported that the owners of the caves closed them to people wanting to visit after they found they had been filled with candles, graffiti and rubbish. The entrance to the caves was sealed up in attempt to keep the trespassers at bay. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2017/03/07/in-pictures-se...
Cool. The original article was lacking on details. Thanks for the context.
Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
#15An interesting observation from the photos is that you can see evidence of light vandalization (mostly "names" carved into the rock). This implies these caves are part of some hyper local knowledge (at least as a party room for teenagers). - I wonder what the oldest vandalization is? - Could it be that there are many others in the area, which is why this hasn't been formally discovered before? How many times has it b…
About the "oldest vandalization" - I remember seeing an exhibition on Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius (79AD), and there was a bunch of examples of preserved graffiti. There seemed to be lots of "Mr Speaker was 'ere", even then!
[edit: oh, article about it... https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/03/adrie...)
[edit 2: http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2... - lots of examples of texts they found: "Daphnus was here with his Felicla", "Restitutus has deceived many girls", "O walls, you have held up so much tedious graffiti that I am amazed that you have not already collapsed in ruin"!]
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#16There are a shocking number of low-effort reddit-like replies here. Can we please not turn Hacker News into yet another blackhole of "joke" replies?
Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
#17An interesting observation from the photos is that you can see evidence of light vandalization (mostly "names" carved into the rock). This implies these caves are part of some hyper local knowledge (at least as a party room for teenagers). - I wonder what the oldest vandalization is? - Could it be that there are many others in the area, which is why this hasn't been formally discovered before? How many times has it b…
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#18The reference to a rabbit hole makes no sense unless it's symbolic, since rabbits holes are about the size of a rabbit.
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#19I thought there was only one Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. How did they get past the rabbit?
Especially as it has a vicious streak a mile wide
Re: Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave
#20There are a shocking number of low-effort reddit-like replies here. Can we please not turn Hacker News into yet another blackhole of "joke" replies?
Downvote bad comments, upvote good ones. It doesn't take much to shoo them away, at least so far.